Types of Diet

There are several types of diet undertaken by people's today;

1. Meat-based Diet:
- Meat and fish are main components. This type of diet will contribute to excess protein and fat and has less carboydrate and fibre. Most of the time, Meat-based diet has negative impact on someone's health as it can contibute to the formation of Uric Acid, excess cholesterol, Intestinal degradation, and will give higher chances of contracting cardiovascular compications (heart attack, angina pectoris and cancer). This type of food is the basis for Atkin's Diet.

2. Omnivouros:
- This is a type of diet undertaken of most people. It involves the consumption of various types of food including but not limited to animal-origin and plant-origin source of food.

3. Ovolactovegetarian:
-Ovolactovegetarians do not eat meat, egg and poultry (chicken). It involves a lesser part of egg and milk. This type of diet prioritize vegetables, fruits, cereals, nuts and beans.
Adults however must limit the intake of egg to 3 eggs per week and milk-based food must be preferably less fat to avoid from high cholesterol intake.

4. Lactovegetarian:
-Lactovegetarians do not eat egg, but it does consume milk and dairy products as an animal-source of food. As ovolactovegetarians it emphasize on the intake of vegetables, fruits, nuts and beans. Protein from milk is quite complete and enriched with plant proteins. However, care should be undertaken for adults to consume less-fat dairy products.

5. Full Vegetarian:
-Full Vegetarians do not eat animal-based food at all. They limits their food to all Plant-origin foods such as vegetables, fruits, beans, nuts and many more. Vegetarians may need Vitamin B12 supplements.

This type of diet gives attractive advantage over omnivorous diet and gives a good alternative for preventing and treatment of many degenerative diseases such as arterioschlerosis, rheumatism and cancer.

A well-balanced vegetarian food must include combination of all other types of vegetables. It must not be limited to , say, raw food only or Beans and nuts only or certain types of vegetables only. A good combination of vegetables, nuts, beans and fruits is greatly needed as these types of food provides different nutritions for our body.

Before I end, I would like to say again "eat wisely, live wisely"